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bluedino on Jan 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)

Another good book is 'Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering'

Books like that should be required reading when learning C. It shows you so much that the typical book won't cover.

tekstar on Jan 25, 2021 | [–]

Yes! What it taught me was, to master a layer of abstraction, learn the layer it sits on top of as well.

AmblingAvocado on Jan 25, 2021 | [–]

I'm particular to "Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel". The more you understand about the system you're running on, the more you can do!

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